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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai. (photo: Credit: Napa Institute / Napa Institute)
By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, November 22, 2024
Edward Pentin is the Register’s Senior Contributor and EWTN News Vatican Analyst. He began reporting on the Pope and the Vatican with Vatican Radio before moving on to become the Rome correspondent for EWTN’s National Catholic Register. …
Coming to Lai’s defense have been more than 100 politicians from 24 countries.
Political leaders, a United Nations body, and human rights groups have publicly spoken out in defense of Jimmy Lai, the Catholic Hong Kong media mogul who faces possible life imprisonment for his involvement in pro-democracy protests, while the Vatican and senior Church leaders continue a policy of declining to make public statements on the case.
Lai appeared in court in Hong Kong for three days this week on charges of foreign collusion and sedition — the result of a stringent national security law that came into force in 2020. …
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